Senior Product Designer

About the role

The role shapes digital products for a leading automotive marketplace. Success is measured through business metrics and continuous user experience improvement.

Designers shape how products look and feel. Designers create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished visuals. They test ideas with users and iterate on feedback. Design work spans research, interaction design, and visual design. Collaboration with product and engineering happens daily. Design decisions are judged by outcomes such as usability, conversion, and customer satisfaction. Most design teams keep a living design system to keep products consistent.

Key facts

What you'll do

These specifications align execution with customer expectations and usability standards.

This workflow delivers coherent user journeys from research to implementation and improvement.

Evidence guides decisions and measures outcomes for product changes.

Stakeholders align on strategy and long-term product vision through this involvement.

Collaboration ensures shared understanding and coordinated execution across disciplines.

Components enable efficient and consistent user experiences as the product grows.

Community engagement elevates design standards and supports peer growth.

Requirements

The posting states a bachelor's degree requirement. Candidates bring 5+ years of in-house experience as a Product Designer working on digital products. This background demonstrates depth in digital product challenges.

Candidates present a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product thinking from discovery to execution with measurable user and business impact. The portfolio illustrates how research, design, and outcomes connect to real-world results.

Candidates show experience designing for complex digital products across web and/or mobile platforms. Multi-platform work requires adapting patterns and interactions to different constraints.

Candidates show a strong understanding of interaction design, usability, accessibility, and visual design principles. These principles guide decisions that balance user goals and business needs.

Candidates use qualitative and quantitative data to identify opportunities, inform decisions, and measure outcomes. Data literacy supports evidence-based design choices.

Candidates communicate, collaborate, and facilitate effectively within cross-functional teams. Clear communication keeps stakeholders aligned and reduces rework.

Candidates maintain a critical eye for high-quality design and a passion for continuously improving the user experience. Quality standards push the team to refine details over time.

Candidates mentor less experienced designers and contribute to a strong design culture. Mentoring helps scale expertise and maintain consistent standards across the team.

Candidates define product goals, identify opportunities, and make design decisions that balance user needs with business impact. Decision-making considers customer value and strategic objectives.

Practical notes

The format is hybrid, with office meet-ups scheduled 2 to 3 days per week. Roles require some in-person collaboration for workshops and design reviews.

Team members work across Berlin and Munich offices within the AutoScout24 Group.

Typical interview steps

Design interviews usually include a portfolio review, a design exercise, and a team conversation. Candidates present past work and explain their process and decisions. Some loops include a live design challenge. Communication matters as much as the visual output. Portfolios are strongest when they show the problem, the constraints, and the iteration, not just the final screens. Interviewers also watch how you take feedback.

Good to know

Design in the automotive marketplace blends usability with regulatory and safety considerations. The role requires attention to clarity and compliance in customer journeys.

Digital product teams rely on design systems to scale experiences efficiently. Designers contribute components, patterns, and documentation to keep interfaces consistent.

Cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and research teams is central to delivering successful products. Shared ownership aligns outcomes across disciplines.

Data-driven decisions influence product direction and validate design hypotheses. Understanding metrics helps refine solutions and demonstrate impact.

Mentoring and knowledge-sharing strengthen design culture and raise quality across the organization. Experienced designers support growth at individual and team levels.